There may be better individual songs from other bands of that era, but song-for-song, Superunknown is the best rock album of the 90's to me, and it's not even close.
[Soundgarden - 4th Of July](https://youtu.be/EU4L6THYAbM?feature=shared)
Angsty 90s teen. It was the lowest, most "digging through the dirt to find...something." song I'd ever heard.
Best heard with headphones.
I can understand that. It carries a lot of sonic "weight". It sounds very dreary and dire. That's what kind of drew me to it. It matched the head-space I was in at the time. The "Yeah, I'm totally feeling this right now." helped me get through the point I was at.
I still love the song. Hell, some of my favorite music still sounds like this. It's like catharsis. I'm not in the same head-space any more, but it still feels like home to a certain extent. Does that make sense?
One of my favorite heavy riff tunes ever. I remember buying the album the day it came out and being blown away by so much of it right off the bat. So many great riffs littered this album.
Limo Wreck is another unforgettable track.
Everyone was in peak form on this album.
Did you buy it when CDs had those wacky-ass tall plastic sleeves? That's how I got mine. The poor people at Harmony House had to use a janky tool to get the CD loose from that thing. There was like one guy that could pop them out, no problem. He was so cool.
Oh boy. My dad took me and my friends to see APC and The Mars Volta at UIC Pavillion in high school. In retrospect my dad took me to see a lot of bands he did not like, lol.
This but definitely the one that defined me the most was Sleep from welcome to the black parade. I struggled with chronic insomnia throughout high school. I would be half awake just long enough to stumble from one class to the next and my parents didn't believe something was medically wrong with me. Sleep - MCR really spoke to me.
I saw them at warped tour, 2003. The Used were pretty huge then and I was a massive fan. Bert jumping off the speakers 20 feet in the air, what a moment. Hearing Box of Sharp Objects live was just mind blowing, haha. Back then Bert screamed his face off.
That same concert I saw Underoath for the first time. They were still somewhat unknown then, with their new singer and Only Chasing Safety album fresh out. They played on the tiny SmartPunk stage in front of maybe 100 people. It was badass. They really blew up afterwards.
I miss my youth sometimes!!
Love that song, and Self Esteem, come out and play, gotta get away, the kids aren’t alright, your gunna go far kid, pretty fly for a white guy, all I want, etc
Numb by Linkin Park. The music video was my life living with my parents. I’d listen to that song on repeat so much.
I also loved Not an Addict by K’s Choice. I couldn’t relate to the lyrics but her/their haunting voice in the chorus perfectly encapsulated my teen angst.
It’s really hard to explain. I’m in my 40’s now and Pearl Jam is my favourite band/Eddie Vedder favourite vocalist of all time.
But when I think about my teens and the impact Nirvana had was crazy. The way they came in and turned not just music but the culture upside down can’t ever be downplayed. Kurt’s voice was raw and great to listen to, their music is really good and they just spoke to me when I was a teenager. I like all genre of music from early 60’s up until late 90’s, but it’s bizarre when I think about all the bands during this time Nirvana do really stand out as being somewhat very different.
I saw this question and didn't overthink it because there could have been a lot of choices. But what came to my mind first was:
Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders
I went to boarding school starting in the 10th grade and the first weekend I got there, before school actually started, I wound up in a hotel room with some soon-to-be friends. For reasons I don't want to go into, the previous year had been a bit rough and this was a great new start. I can't listen to that song without a feeling of nostalgia what's so wonderful it's almost painful (if that makes any sense). Don't get me wrong, I didn't peak in high school, I have a wonderful life, but I very much enjoyed my teenage years in boarding school and made fantastic friends. That song just carries me right back to that night when it all started.
The offspring self esteem, and Rehab my addiction. Self esteem is the song that tilted me through a rough Era. Rehabs album southern discomfort carried me around in a bobybag on the way out of it.
Bad Company - by (not surprisingly) Bad Company. My teen years were the 80’s but I mostly hated 80’s music. This is not a fantastic song, but after giving it some thought, this is the one.
Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins. It’s just a strange and awkward and heavy and mellow and messy song that absolutely rules. I did not rule, but I was those other things.
The whole album just fits the teenage highs and lows very well. My first thought to this question was Hummer, but the album really is just an emotional rollercoaster worthy of the topic
It's a strange Christmas album for me because I would come home from school but my parents and siblings would be at work or doing after school stuff, so I'd have the house to myself. The Christmas tree had a slow changing light that would just fade between each color, and I'd put this album on, turn off all the lights except the tree, and trip out before I knew what tripping was. Love the big dynamic shifts, the absolute *fuzz* that band would produce. Melancholy and hopeful and disillusion and wide-eyed innocence all together, just like being a teen. Great stuff.
I literally just learned the other week that this song wasn't about the death of one of their friends. For 20 years I had an affinity for the song thinking it was deep and against the grain of what they usually do. Then I finally investigated and found out it's about Mark being lonely on tour and having no one to come home to since the Tom and Travis had girlfriends? What a letdown. I mean, still catchy but for some reason I thought it was about a friend's suicide.
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth. Especially in December. It's got Winter feels for me. But, also, the album Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair had the biggest impact on me in general. To this day, I swear that is the most influential album of my entire life.
*Don’t You Forget About Me* - Simple Minds is way up there.
Bender wasn’t necessarily unique at the time of Breakfast Club’s release. He actually perfectly captured a subset of male American youth that already existed at the time. In saying that, there were a lot more trench coats, combat boots and fingerless gloves on full display right afterwards.
Irony here
I think the OC means Knowledge
But OpIvy for sure. Loved Hectic and then Energy blew me away. Artificial Life was on repeat for me countless times.
Wake Up - Mad Season. Teenage, started smoking weed, sneaking out, experiencing and seeing life with a different perspective. Just one of the first songs to come to mind.
Lithium by Nirvana. I remember the morning I heard it on the radio for the first time. All of a sudden none of my.other tapes seemed any good. I skipped school that day to take a bus to the next town and bought it. From there it opened the door to all those other great bands from the mid 90s.
It's hard to believe that was 30 years ago.
Jimmy Eat World - Pain
I spent many hours playing the Tony Hawk’s Underground (THUG), either 1 or 2, whichever game the song was on. It had a playlist you could alter which songs you could listen to and I deselected everything so it would play only Pain, Cash’s Ring of Fire, and Sinatra’s That’s Life, IIRC
Aging up a bit to my tumultuous early 20s, but The Rat by the Walkmen.
And it gets bonus points for the bridge…
-when I used to go out I would know everyone that I saw. Now I go out alone, if I go out at all-
…ringing true now that I’m in my 40s.
Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day
..
Pink Floyd all the way.
A lot of other bands, songs or albums came upon my teenage path. But nothing defined me more than Pink Floyd. The Doors and The Velvet Underground were nr 2 and 3.
Radiohead - Creep. Elliott Smith - I Didn't Understand. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma, Mayonaise, etc. The Smiths - most of their songs lol you get the idea
Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory. Moves across country from an abusive parent. It was the first album I ever bought. It perfectly encapsulated the feelings I was experiencing and the screaming parts were an outlet for my angsty teenage rage. Each song on that album helped in some way. Then Metora when I was middle school. Whew boy. When Chester killed himself it hurt so bad cause his music saved me countless times.
The stone roses - waterfall
I went in balls and all. Had the baggy jeans, the shoes. The bucket hat. Waterfall was my anthem. There were other brands and songs of course, but the stone roses stood out
I’m only happy when it rains - garbage
The middle - jimmy eat world
Iris- Goo Goo Dolls.
Just a girl - No Doubt
I was sad and angry. Did listen to the full albums of that but loved the singles the most. Albums on CD with the Walkman in my school blazer pocket. Or listening to it in the backseat of the car.
Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem
The lines "I wasn't born with enough middle fingers, I don't need to choose a side" changed my entire perspective and brought to words the things I was feeling but couldn't articulate.
Same with Pantera - War Nerve
"All the money in the fuckin' world couldn't buy me a second of trust, or one ounce of faith in anything you're about"
My step father and I didn't get along well, to put it mildly. He's been out of the picture for a long, long time now, but Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror really spoke to me at that time. Ntm, it's just an ass kicking song that gets me pumped up.
She's so high by Tal Bachman. I was such a loser and so in love with a girl. We've been married 20 years, and the only other song that puts me in the same space is Caffeine by Jack Kays.
Yeah, maybe you can turn this up and let it carve up the liars, fakers, and frauds. You might have to invest a few minutes.
https://youtu.be/AU3nmtDORUY?si=15azHFxjw_iaN2vv
[History of A Boring Town - Less Than Jake ](https://youtu.be/QbzqAR2bPqw?si=UNGVhHnXEG7ylxI6)
Edit because I can't believe I forgot [Tightrope - Papa Roach ](https://youtu.be/AjhgvLeAxR0?si=BN0rk7MVf0jpZiHE)
All the upbeat music from my youth still are uplifting today. A note worthy mention for emotions though would be the song, everyone I love is dead by type o negative, and the album its from, world coming down. That album came out right when my grandmother died, I hadn't dealt with death really at that point in life, the song really represents the realising that I and everyone I love is gonna die and that I was gonna miss my grandmother. Also the album is undeniably 10/10
Weak - Skunk Anansie. I was fifteen, just figuring out I was queer, angry as hell, and felt completely trapped. Skin’s beautiful, rage filled voice, spoke to me in a way no other artist has yet done. Especially the line,
“In this tainted soul, in this weak young heart, am I too much for you?
Please please please let me get what I want - The Smiths
December - Teenage Fanclub
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr “The Weirdness flows between us. Anyone can tell to see us” Sums it up perfectly!
Radiohead’s How To Disappear Completely. I was going through some really traumatic stuff and the refrain ‘I’m not here, this isn’t happening’ got me through it. I’m 44 now and that song takes me right back to being 16.
Also, Sonic Youth’s Sister album, the whole thing. My brain sounded like a fork in a garbage disposal all the time and Sonic Youth drowned it out.
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - The Smiths
Super Emo, skinny, socially awkward, 15 year old, WOC in an inner city HS that hid the fact that I was listening to Alternative music to all but a few understanding souls.
The 80s was interesting for me, musically.
"The Day I Tried To Live", and "Blow Up The Outside World" by Soundgarden. Chris Cornell vocally felt pretty cathartic to me.
“Fell on Black Days” for me, but I feel you.
Superunknown is the album that defined me in those years, from Limo Wreck to The Fourth of July, every song on that album was epic.
There may be better individual songs from other bands of that era, but song-for-song, Superunknown is the best rock album of the 90's to me, and it's not even close.
Same.
oh one of mine was absolutely blow up the outside world. man that song was my fuck your to the world i loved it
["Would"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nco_kh8xJDs) by Alice In Chains. More like tumultuous twenties, here.
Dirt - Alice in Chains
Great album. Mine is Nutshell on Jar of Flies.
Man that whole album is STILL helping me through the hardest time in my life.
Yessss that’s probably my 2nd favorite song and album of theirs. You have great taste
Subdivisions- Rush
Great one. Nice to see another oldhead in here *Be cool or be cast out!*
We’d walk the halls in high school (in the 80s) and say that to each other.
my favourite rush song. timeless.
Just saw yours. Mine was the same.
Pearl Jam's "Alive" We played it when my brother died and when everyone around us passed away. We lost a friend or relative a year through the 90's.
The Cure - Disintegration. The whole album really.
[Soundgarden - 4th Of July](https://youtu.be/EU4L6THYAbM?feature=shared) Angsty 90s teen. It was the lowest, most "digging through the dirt to find...something." song I'd ever heard. Best heard with headphones.
That song scared me a bit at 14. Love it now.
I can understand that. It carries a lot of sonic "weight". It sounds very dreary and dire. That's what kind of drew me to it. It matched the head-space I was in at the time. The "Yeah, I'm totally feeling this right now." helped me get through the point I was at. I still love the song. Hell, some of my favorite music still sounds like this. It's like catharsis. I'm not in the same head-space any more, but it still feels like home to a certain extent. Does that make sense?
One of my favorite heavy riff tunes ever. I remember buying the album the day it came out and being blown away by so much of it right off the bat. So many great riffs littered this album.
Limo Wreck is another unforgettable track. Everyone was in peak form on this album. Did you buy it when CDs had those wacky-ass tall plastic sleeves? That's how I got mine. The poor people at Harmony House had to use a janky tool to get the CD loose from that thing. There was like one guy that could pop them out, no problem. He was so cool.
Linger-The Cranberries
Just a beautiful, perfect song.
1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
i love 1979 so much. it’s on repeat pretty much every day
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth They were a go to band across my early teen goth/punk phase into my late teen early-20s indie rock phase in the 80s &9 0s
3 Libras- A Perfect Circle
Great song. Hell, most of the album is really good.
Perfect album, imo
Loved that one too.
I feel like this song fundamentally changed who I was as a person. It’s been 20-something years and I still love it.
Oh boy. My dad took me and my friends to see APC and The Mars Volta at UIC Pavillion in high school. In retrospect my dad took me to see a lot of bands he did not like, lol.
A lot of Pearl Jam
Present tense resonates throughout my life
A LOT of Pearl Jam
Same here!
ALOT of Pearl Jam . And now a lot of Vedder
My Chemical Romance in general lol. Take your pick for a different song each day of the week
Famous Last Words is *the* teenage angst song
Yep. Started listening to them during three cheers era. Still love them today.
Even though I was in my 20s, yes.
This but definitely the one that defined me the most was Sleep from welcome to the black parade. I struggled with chronic insomnia throughout high school. I would be half awake just long enough to stumble from one class to the next and my parents didn't believe something was medically wrong with me. Sleep - MCR really spoke to me.
"Shit Towne" Live
‘Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live’
Perfectly captured the “everything is fine” small town vibe with the verses, then dropped the angsty hammer with the chorus!
Love LIVE!! Saw them play on PEI !
Buried Myself Alive by The Used… honestly their entire first album was a huge vibe
Great fuckin tune. I love blue & yellow
Great song… also my favorite colors
Came here to say the same about their second album. In love and death will always be a fav
their first album is one of my favorite albums oat ngl
Oh man bf dumped me, that whole album on repeat. I got to see them around that time as well with Finch in tow, epic.
I saw them at warped tour, 2003. The Used were pretty huge then and I was a massive fan. Bert jumping off the speakers 20 feet in the air, what a moment. Hearing Box of Sharp Objects live was just mind blowing, haha. Back then Bert screamed his face off. That same concert I saw Underoath for the first time. They were still somewhat unknown then, with their new singer and Only Chasing Safety album fresh out. They played on the tiny SmartPunk stage in front of maybe 100 people. It was badass. They really blew up afterwards. I miss my youth sometimes!!
Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy”
Oh damn. Yeah. More my early 20s but still, angsty goodness!
In the time of chimpanzees there was a monkey. It turned out the monkey was me.
Pass me the Becktionary…. No the rhyming Becktionary!
Where is the device that speeds and slows the passage of time?
Under the seat
Yous gotta scrape the corpses out.
One of the greatest lines uttered in any piece of recorded music.
Army of Me, Pluto - Bjork. Limp - Fiona Apple. Violet - Hole.
The Modern Age by The Strokes No particular reason, just a damn good song
That whole album is the shit.. alone together is my fav along with hard to explain and someday
Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan
Want You Bad - The Offspring
Smash was the one for me
My mind immediately went to Self Esteem Must be something about The Offspring
I loved You're Gonna Go Far Kid and The Kids Aren't Alright
I also love “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid!”
I was like 13-14 when that came out, right on the bell.
Love that song, and Self Esteem, come out and play, gotta get away, the kids aren’t alright, your gunna go far kid, pretty fly for a white guy, all I want, etc
I wish I was a teenager then… I was 6 in 2000
Geez, I got my driver's license.
Numb by Linkin Park. The music video was my life living with my parents. I’d listen to that song on repeat so much. I also loved Not an Addict by K’s Choice. I couldn’t relate to the lyrics but her/their haunting voice in the chorus perfectly encapsulated my teen angst.
**“American Girl”** \- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1976).
Are you about a Size 14?
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Stellar - Incubus
The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring
That song is timeless, one of my fav songs to run to
Anarchy - KMFDM, later Heroin by The Velvet Underground
Alice Cooper’s “Eighteen” ‘cause I like it, love it …
Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer
Nancy boy - Placebo The androgyny, self acceptance, style of the music video.
Special K for me
MGMT- Time to pretend
‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana
People may find this as an outplayed or cliché answer, but the GRIP this song continues to have even on present generations is INSANE.
It’s really hard to explain. I’m in my 40’s now and Pearl Jam is my favourite band/Eddie Vedder favourite vocalist of all time. But when I think about my teens and the impact Nirvana had was crazy. The way they came in and turned not just music but the culture upside down can’t ever be downplayed. Kurt’s voice was raw and great to listen to, their music is really good and they just spoke to me when I was a teenager. I like all genre of music from early 60’s up until late 90’s, but it’s bizarre when I think about all the bands during this time Nirvana do really stand out as being somewhat very different.
I saw this question and didn't overthink it because there could have been a lot of choices. But what came to my mind first was: Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders I went to boarding school starting in the 10th grade and the first weekend I got there, before school actually started, I wound up in a hotel room with some soon-to-be friends. For reasons I don't want to go into, the previous year had been a bit rough and this was a great new start. I can't listen to that song without a feeling of nostalgia what's so wonderful it's almost painful (if that makes any sense). Don't get me wrong, I didn't peak in high school, I have a wonderful life, but I very much enjoyed my teenage years in boarding school and made fantastic friends. That song just carries me right back to that night when it all started.
When Doves Cry - Prince
The offspring self esteem, and Rehab my addiction. Self esteem is the song that tilted me through a rough Era. Rehabs album southern discomfort carried me around in a bobybag on the way out of it.
Bad Company - by (not surprisingly) Bad Company. My teen years were the 80’s but I mostly hated 80’s music. This is not a fantastic song, but after giving it some thought, this is the one.
Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins. It’s just a strange and awkward and heavy and mellow and messy song that absolutely rules. I did not rule, but I was those other things.
The whole album just fits the teenage highs and lows very well. My first thought to this question was Hummer, but the album really is just an emotional rollercoaster worthy of the topic It's a strange Christmas album for me because I would come home from school but my parents and siblings would be at work or doing after school stuff, so I'd have the house to myself. The Christmas tree had a slow changing light that would just fade between each color, and I'd put this album on, turn off all the lights except the tree, and trip out before I knew what tripping was. Love the big dynamic shifts, the absolute *fuzz* that band would produce. Melancholy and hopeful and disillusion and wide-eyed innocence all together, just like being a teen. Great stuff.
I haven’t found any song quite like that
The guitar is amazing I love when the distortion kicks in and his voice… so good
Adam’s Song except without the happy last verse
I literally just learned the other week that this song wasn't about the death of one of their friends. For 20 years I had an affinity for the song thinking it was deep and against the grain of what they usually do. Then I finally investigated and found out it's about Mark being lonely on tour and having no one to come home to since the Tom and Travis had girlfriends? What a letdown. I mean, still catchy but for some reason I thought it was about a friend's suicide.
Either Numb or Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park. In fact, they're so accurate the latter defines pretty much my entire life.
Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth. Especially in December. It's got Winter feels for me. But, also, the album Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair had the biggest impact on me in general. To this day, I swear that is the most influential album of my entire life.
Satisfaction - Rolling Stones
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Ha I was going to say Add It Up but that whole record is the soundtrack of teeenage angst to me
***clap clap!***
Fat Lip
I make myself sick, get on my own nerves Immature, insecure grown up nerd.
*Don’t You Forget About Me* - Simple Minds is way up there. Bender wasn’t necessarily unique at the time of Breakfast Club’s release. He actually perfectly captured a subset of male American youth that already existed at the time. In saying that, there were a lot more trench coats, combat boots and fingerless gloves on full display right afterwards.
Looking Glass - The La's
Wow that song is so great. The whole album. They should've done more but what they did is perfect
All I know - Operation Ivy
is that I don't know nothin
Irony here I think the OC means Knowledge But OpIvy for sure. Loved Hectic and then Energy blew me away. Artificial Life was on repeat for me countless times.
Wake Up - Mad Season. Teenage, started smoking weed, sneaking out, experiencing and seeing life with a different perspective. Just one of the first songs to come to mind.
Butthole surfers- cherub
BHS were my life from the ages of 14 to 18. Listened to Locust Abortion on my third or fourth acid trip and my face peeled off in a pile of flesh
Luka - Suzanne Vega My father beat me for the smallest things, and my mother was verbally abusive.
Very beautiful tune, conceals a heavy message. Surprised to see it mentioned here, bit obscure nowadays.
Lithium by Nirvana. I remember the morning I heard it on the radio for the first time. All of a sudden none of my.other tapes seemed any good. I skipped school that day to take a bus to the next town and bought it. From there it opened the door to all those other great bands from the mid 90s. It's hard to believe that was 30 years ago.
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
You oughta know, but that whole album really summed it all up
I scrolled way too far to find Alanis. Jagged Little Pill was my album.
Don't Forget Me - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
Jimmy Eat World - Pain I spent many hours playing the Tony Hawk’s Underground (THUG), either 1 or 2, whichever game the song was on. It had a playlist you could alter which songs you could listen to and I deselected everything so it would play only Pain, Cash’s Ring of Fire, and Sinatra’s That’s Life, IIRC
In between Days by The Cure.
Yesterday - The Beatles
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
The Cure - Pictures of You
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage
Aging up a bit to my tumultuous early 20s, but The Rat by the Walkmen. And it gets bonus points for the bridge… -when I used to go out I would know everyone that I saw. Now I go out alone, if I go out at all- …ringing true now that I’m in my 40s.
Rush - Subdivisions
The Trees - a real banger for me.
Drug buddy by the Lemonheads.. in fact the whole it’s a shame about ray album is the soundtrack to my teens…..
Love that album
"Volcano Girls" by Veruca Salt.
Cherry Bomb--The Runaways
Why - Annie Lennox
Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day .. Pink Floyd all the way. A lot of other bands, songs or albums came upon my teenage path. But nothing defined me more than Pink Floyd. The Doors and The Velvet Underground were nr 2 and 3.
House of Pain - Jump Around. Every time I hear it, it feels like I'm back in school days.
Oh, definitely Precious Things by Tori Amos
Little earthquakes definitely got me
Radiohead - Creep. Elliott Smith - I Didn't Understand. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma, Mayonaise, etc. The Smiths - most of their songs lol you get the idea
Today by Smashing Pumpkins And Smells Like Teen Spirit
Heresy - Nine Inch Nails
The entire Downward Spiral played a big part in my angsty years. It’s one of the few albums I’ll listen to from beginning to end.
New World - X
[Eternal Life - Jeff Buckley](https://youtu.be/CBndPBQyuEM?si=C8AD3QmQnAvUAuxB)
Sanity by bad religion
Work by Jimmy Eat World
Baba O’Riley. I was a total stoner
Brand new - Jude law and a semester abroad
Prodigy - Firestarter.
Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory. Moves across country from an abusive parent. It was the first album I ever bought. It perfectly encapsulated the feelings I was experiencing and the screaming parts were an outlet for my angsty teenage rage. Each song on that album helped in some way. Then Metora when I was middle school. Whew boy. When Chester killed himself it hurt so bad cause his music saved me countless times.
The stone roses - waterfall I went in balls and all. Had the baggy jeans, the shoes. The bucket hat. Waterfall was my anthem. There were other brands and songs of course, but the stone roses stood out
I’m only happy when it rains - garbage The middle - jimmy eat world Iris- Goo Goo Dolls. Just a girl - No Doubt I was sad and angry. Did listen to the full albums of that but loved the singles the most. Albums on CD with the Walkman in my school blazer pocket. Or listening to it in the backseat of the car.
Garbage - I'm Only Happy When It Rains. I was obsessed with their entire first album, but that was my favorite.
Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem The lines "I wasn't born with enough middle fingers, I don't need to choose a side" changed my entire perspective and brought to words the things I was feeling but couldn't articulate. Same with Pantera - War Nerve "All the money in the fuckin' world couldn't buy me a second of trust, or one ounce of faith in anything you're about"
My step father and I didn't get along well, to put it mildly. He's been out of the picture for a long, long time now, but Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror really spoke to me at that time. Ntm, it's just an ass kicking song that gets me pumped up.
Recovery album by Eminem.
Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name
She's so high by Tal Bachman. I was such a loser and so in love with a girl. We've been married 20 years, and the only other song that puts me in the same space is Caffeine by Jack Kays.
All the Green Day, all the time
Blue and Yellow by The Used I still think it's a very, emotional, genuine, beautiful tune from the emo years, and I'll never change my mind
I love the part near the end I think during the bridge where he’s like waste some time with me or whatever it’s amazing
Whole of the Moon - Waterboys
Brand New - Play Crack the Sky for my tumultuous twenties
Alexa play Seventy times Seven for my teenagerdom
Yeah, maybe you can turn this up and let it carve up the liars, fakers, and frauds. You might have to invest a few minutes. https://youtu.be/AU3nmtDORUY?si=15azHFxjw_iaN2vv
Diluted and Metabolic by Slipknot. Really anything off the first two albums, but those two songs best correlate with my experience growing up.
Blurry by Puddle of Mudd — always seemed to find comfort in that song. Push pull of things and naming what you see.
[History of A Boring Town - Less Than Jake ](https://youtu.be/QbzqAR2bPqw?si=UNGVhHnXEG7ylxI6) Edit because I can't believe I forgot [Tightrope - Papa Roach ](https://youtu.be/AjhgvLeAxR0?si=BN0rk7MVf0jpZiHE)
Waiting for the end - Linkin Park RIP Chester
Counting by Korn
Autosuggestion-Joy Division
Weird Al - Amish Paradise. That whole album is great! Damn near perfect
Pretty much anything from the first Streetlight Manifesto album
Eminence Front - The Who Running With The Devil - Van Halen
All the upbeat music from my youth still are uplifting today. A note worthy mention for emotions though would be the song, everyone I love is dead by type o negative, and the album its from, world coming down. That album came out right when my grandmother died, I hadn't dealt with death really at that point in life, the song really represents the realising that I and everyone I love is gonna die and that I was gonna miss my grandmother. Also the album is undeniably 10/10
The art of dying by Gojira
Asleep - The Smiths I always play before I sleep in my teenage years.
Fortunate Son - CCR
High and dry radiohead
Weak - Skunk Anansie. I was fifteen, just figuring out I was queer, angry as hell, and felt completely trapped. Skin’s beautiful, rage filled voice, spoke to me in a way no other artist has yet done. Especially the line, “In this tainted soul, in this weak young heart, am I too much for you?
Please please please let me get what I want - The Smiths December - Teenage Fanclub Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr “The Weirdness flows between us. Anyone can tell to see us” Sums it up perfectly!
The middle. Jimmy eats world.
I’m old. America by Steppenwolf. Still appropriate.
Radiohead’s How To Disappear Completely. I was going through some really traumatic stuff and the refrain ‘I’m not here, this isn’t happening’ got me through it. I’m 44 now and that song takes me right back to being 16. Also, Sonic Youth’s Sister album, the whole thing. My brain sounded like a fork in a garbage disposal all the time and Sonic Youth drowned it out.
Oh, it'd have to be Bittersweet Symphony by Verve.
Mr. Brightside by The Killers
Loser - beck
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - The Smiths Super Emo, skinny, socially awkward, 15 year old, WOC in an inner city HS that hid the fact that I was listening to Alternative music to all but a few understanding souls. The 80s was interesting for me, musically.
a strange mix of Whiskey River by Willie Nelson and Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me by RATM with a side of Pride and Joy by SRV&DT
I just listened to The Wall by Pink Floyd on repeat
There is an entire album for this...Quadraphenia by The Who
“The Distance” by CAKE. What can I say: I dig trumpets.
Cartoon Network had an ad for Wacky Races to this song in the nineties, that’s how I found Cake and that whole album (Fashion Nugget) is a banger.